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Posts Tagged with ‘film’

  • Six Things You Need To Know About Treatments

    03 Nov 2012

    If you want to write for film or TV, then treatments, outlines, synopses (the terms are interchangeable in the industry) are something you have to get good at. And to write good treatments there are six things you'll need to know.

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  • Give your flashbacks the kiss of life

    09 Jul 2012

    There are a thousand myths about flashbacks in scripts. Some people say you shouldn’t ever write them. Some people say…

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  • Why do some scripts sell, and some don’t?

    14 Jan 2012

    Many people ask me if they should learn about selling and pitching scripts before they start writing, or after they’ve…

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  • Good movie? Where did it come from?

    11 Jan 2012

    Cameron wants us to make blockbusters. David Cameron, that is, not James. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9006675/Ken-Loach-pouring-lottery-money-into-blockbusters-is-a-travesty.html Speaking as a film director, and director…

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  • How to land a top star and the BBC with one treatment

    13 Sep 2011

    Most people hate writing treatments. Not me, I love them. This is how I used a treatment to hook a top star comedian and the BBC in just five pages - and how you can too.

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  • Want to succeed? Maybe do the opposite.

    30 Aug 2011

    Have you heard of Kelly Marcel? If not yet, you soon will. You'll probably, if you're like me, be deeply and painfully jealous. And something she said recently might teach us something important.

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  • How long should your treatment be?

    25 Aug 2011

    I've been running my Exciting Treatments workshop for over ten years now, and one of the first questions I'm asked is alway, How long is a treatment supposed to be?

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  • Just one trick for screenwriting success

    16 Aug 2011

    How can the most successful video on YouTube help you find screenwriting success?

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  • If you want to sell your script, don’t get stuck on the bridge

    26 Jul 2011

    IS YOUR SCRIPT STUCK ON THE BRIDGE? Back from holiday, I’ve been thinking about a massive underpublicised reason why far…

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  • One question that will help you sell your script

    03 Jul 2011

    What is the key question you need to ask to sell your script? The right question follows soon. First here's the wrong question.

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